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Mission Log, a Rottenberry Star Trek podcast, episode 497, real-life.

Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Rottenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm Norman Lau, and I'm John Champion.

Each week on Mission Log, we examine an episode of Star Trek in search of the morals, meanings and messages and ask ourselves if it stands the test of time.

This week is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? No escape from reality? That is unless you have a holodeck where you can escape from reality whenever you want.

Or I guess in this case, escape to reality whenever you want. I will have trivia in just a moment, but first, Norman has a word on how to reach us.

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And now, here is John Champion with this week's trivia.

Alright, real life. We have a real story by Harry Chlor. Harry is new to our discussion. He's a writer, producer, director, and he holds a distinction of being the only person to earn two simultaneous PhDs, both of those from Purdue University.

He'd inquired about the writer's internship program, but he was invited to just go ahead and pitch to Jerry Taylor, this being the first story of his that was purchased.

And the teleplay duties then fell to Jerry Taylor herself. And it was her intention to dig deep into the humanity of the doctor and that classic Star Trek tradition of looking at human emotional life through one of the non-human characters.

And yes, it is a little nod to Kenneth Biller that the doctor's name among his family is Kenneth.

This was directed by Ensign Williams. Welcome back to Star Trek. Ensign, we all know him as potsy from Happy Days, but this actor turned director has already been mentioned by us a couple of times.

He directed two episodes of DS9, statistical probabilities, and it's only a paper moon. This kicks off his time on Voyager for which he will direct a total of four episodes.

Special effects note, the subspace eddies were created with CG, of course. And I'm just amused that the folks at Foundation Imaging referred to them as space tornadoes.

Let's meet our guest stars, all of our guest stars appear in the hall of deck this week. There are a couple of Klingon Utes named Larg and Kekov.

John, did you say Yut?

Yeah, Yut's.

What's a Yut?

So Yut, Klingon Yut's named Larg and Kekov, played by Steven Ralston and Chad Haywood, respectively.

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